I'm running VL5.8. I just installed the latest Virtualbox from the repos. It installed ok, but when I created a virtual machine and tried to run it I got an error message about the kernel driver. So I went back and installed the kernel driver from the repos as well (the one for VL5., but I still get an error when I try to start a virtual machine:

Thanks for the tips. Bigpaws, I found there was no group called voxusers. I created one and added myself just in case, but I still got the error. Newtor, in my case vboxdrv was already loaded, though I did try run the modprobe command as you suggested. Still no joy.

In desperation I uninstalled and reinstalled (showing my Windows background) and.... yep, it works ok now! I would have preferred to know why it didn't work the first time though...

Anyway, thanks for the fast responses. I might have some more VirtualBox questions soon...Andy